Show Quarterly Conference o Elder lder O Joseph Fielding FIlding Smith of or th the the- Council of Twelve and President Ray L. L Pratt member of ot tho the First Council Coun cil of ent Seventy and President of the Mexican Mission were visitors at the Stake Quarterly Conference which was held in Parowan Dec 3 I and 4 All AH members of the Stake Presidency were vere In attendance most of ot the members members mem mem- bers ber of the High Council ani the tho wards of the Stake were either rep represented resented by members of the Bishopric or of the ward vard The principal speakers at the tho sessions ses Bel sea sea- sion were Elder lder Joseph Fielding Smith Pres Free Rey L. L Pratt Prep Pres Wm R. R Palmer Counselors Thos J J. J Jones and Aithur R R. R Fife ICe High Councilor Lucius N. N Marsden High Councilor George GeorAe W. W Esplin High Councilor Walter C. C Mitchell Bishop liMP Walter K Granger danger Bishop L. L N. N Marsden Jr former President Wilford Day Principal Amos C. C Hatch of the Parowan High School Gustive 0 O. Larson Principal of the Cedar L. L D. D S. S Semina Seminary and nd the following re returned vs re turned missionaries Elder Elvid Withams Wit Wil Wil Williams llama hams from the Central States Elder Daniel L. L Corry from the California Mission and Elder Bertrand Langford Lang Lang- ford from Great Britain During the conference Counselor f Wm L. L Adams was and and Ancel J. J Adams was ordained a High Priest and set apart to succeed Elder Wm L. L Adams as first counselor to Bishop L. L of the Parowan East War Ward Counselor John H. H Tufts Tullia of the Newcastle bishopric was Will or ordained or a and set apart apart apart- to ta to succeed Bishop J 1 J. J Turner Forsyth Forsth aa as Bishop of Newcastle T The e principal t themes terne e e. e o of tb the conference con u ference were prayer tithing service ser ser- vice ice and tbt The e ra a. a S outstanding in ja all U the sessions sessions' from from th the first to io the last lasi Much spirit and ni d enthusiasm was wal manifest manlIest the entire conference The d duty ty of th the tatter Latter Day S Saints Saints-as brought out Lathe in La inthe the various discourses is to obey the gospel gopel living it In humility and thru service to seek the Lord in prayer while we we cia can can yet find Him for or if we Him film now the time may mar come when we shall hall pray to Him and ando find that he is not near It WIll was brought out th that t many of ot the things that are being taught in OU our school destroy faith in God such as the theory that man Came ame up in Intelligence intelligence intel Intel- to the point he now occupies that at first he was a Ii being of very little intelligence or or learning This Thil theory is refuted by Elder Joseph Fielding Smith who cla claims ms ms that Adam the father and patriarch of therace therace the the- race was a man of such intelligence and learning that he was wae qualified and is qualified to sit eternally as the guiding h hind head ad of his nume numerous s pos pus He also stated that the language used by Adam was purl pure and undefiled which cannot be bes said ld of our present day languages He also said that Abraham knew more concerning once the stars than modern astronomers do He lie said that disobedience and degradation language was lost and much of or the tha learning attained also but that that- technically we came down to the the point we now occupy He said sald in re regard re gard to present lay cay ay mechanical In Inventions inventions in in- etc that this was wai the day bY and age in which the Lord willed they the should come forth among the children of men toto |